Eibeplace and stove



C. NEER.

Fireplace.

Patenied May .31, 1853.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GFFICE.

CHARLES NEER, 0F TROY, NEW YORK.

FIREPLACE AND STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,756, dated May 81, 1853.

To all whomz't may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES NEER, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State vof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Finish of Fireplaces and the farming of Rooms; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part thereof, in which- Figure 1 represents a front view in which the letter A represents the inverted pyramid or hopper, the letter B the fire chamber, the letter C the front ire box plate and grate, D ornamental open work or register, E the inlets for cold air at the base, (a) the draft damper, and (b) movable panels for cleaning the flues, and the arrows show the direction of heated air when conducted oif by pipes.

Fig. 2 is an end View, in which the letter F represents the flues, G hot air chamber, I-ll a section of the ash pan, the arrows show the direction of the smoke and air, and the red line at the right and top represent the back and top of the lining or nonconducting oven to be set in the common fire place.

Fig. 3 is a top view, in which the letter A represents the inverted pyramid or hopper, the letter D ornamental open work or register, F flues, I connect-ion of front and rear upright fines, J upper connection of rear upright flues, K direct draft damper, G hot air chamber, (c) damper in upper connection of rear flues, and the arrows show the direction of heated air from the register also the direction of smoke, &c., in the iues.

Fig. t vertical longitudinal view at the line y, of Figs. 2, 3, in which the letter A represents the inverted pyramid, B the i'ire chamber, C the grate, F the flues, Gr the hot air chamber, and the arrows represent the direction of the smoke and also hot air.

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view at T U of Fig. 1, in which the letter A represents inverted pyramid, B the fire chamber, C the grate, G hot air chamber, F flues, and the letter K direct draft damper, the letter (d) the tube for air to the hopper, and the arrows the direction of the air through the tube.

Fig. 6 is a sectional view taken at the lines V W of Fig. 3, in which the letter F represents the flues, K the direct draft damper,

and the letter L the damper or cover for an opening in the center flue in rear of t-he ash pan for cleaning the flue, (c o) dampers to cause the smoke to descend the outside rear tlues.

The nature of my invention consists in combining with a fire-place, heating stove or furnace, an inverted pyramidal shaped air heating chamber, so that its inclined sides shall radiate the heat, and throw it against the fire box plates on all sides, when the fire box is anked or surrounded by a series of hot air, and gas and smoke iues for exposing all the heated plates to the current of air which is to be warmed and drifted into the apart-ment to be warmed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings.

The tire place may be constructed in any of the usual forms, the flue of which I close, making it air tight excepting only room to receive the smoke pipe. I then put in the common fire place a tin or other nonconducting lining or oven with back, sides and top, leaving only an opening directly under the one as described in the Hue for the smoke pipe. This lining or oven should be made large enough to nearly fill the tire place in which it is set, and may be slightly attached at or near the edges of the front plate herein after described so that in connection with said plate to forma tight hot air chamber'. The front plate should be formed with openings for upper and lower doors and ash pan and also open work at the upper margin to serve as a register for the escape of heated air and openings at the bottom to supply cold air which may be governed by dampers. On the back side of said plate or fire board I place flanges to receive the front edges of the fire box plates and also other fianges to which are attached the smoke pipes.

In the lower opening of the front plate I place an ash pan or drawer, directly over which I place a coal grate with doors, and directly over those I place another pair of doors with mica panels. In the chamber formed by these last doors and fire box plates I place an inverted pyramid or hopper coming in close contact with the fire which serves to radiate and also to throw the heat against the fire box plates on all sides. At or near the bottom of this hopper is placeda small tube for the circulation of cold air into the hopper to drift out the heated air; this tube may be so lengthened as to receive the cold air at any desirable` may easily be done above the mantle shelf or carried alittle up the chimney and be brought out in front on either side.

Having thus fully described the nature of i my invention what I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- The combining with the fire boX of a fireplace heating stove or furnace, an inverted pyramidal shaped air chamber, open at top, and suspended over the re, so that the inclined sides thereof shall radiate the heat,

vand throw it against the lire boX plates on all sides; and this I claim when the fire boX vis flanked or surrounded by a series of one, .two or more air heating and smoke and gas flues G, F, G, F, for the purpose of exposing all the heated plates to the current of air to be warmed and drifted into the room or apartment to be heated, substantially in the manner, and for the purpose herein described.

CHARLES NEER.

Witnesses JNO. J. SAVAGE, A. SNYDER. 

